• 文献标题:   Gel-Derived Cation-pi Stacking Films of Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Complexes as Oxygen Cathodes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG T, MATSUDA H, ZHOU HS
  • 作者关键词:   carbon nanotube, cation stacking interaction, gel, graphene, lio2 batterie
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMSUSCHEM
  • ISSN:   1864-5631 EI 1864-564X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Inst Ind Sci Technol AIST
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1002/cssc.201402567
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

A key challenge in processing carbon nanotubes and their composites for large-scale applications is aggregation. Cation- stacking interactions have been discovered to disperse heavily entangled single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles in ionic liquids (ILs). In this work, we found that a dispersible, silky single-layer graphene (SLG) can be readily gathered together to form a crosslinked gel after entrapping sufficient IL molecular via the likely noncovalent interaction. By incorporating the dispersed SWNTs into the gathered SLG gel synchronously, we prepared solid, finely crosslinked SWNTs-SLG films, assisted by an avenue of 2-step extraction to remove the IL completely. The gel-derived SWNTs-SLG complex film was applied as a support material of oxygen cathodes for Li-O-2 batteries. It exhibited a remarkable improved cycleability in comparison to made of SWNTs and SLG alone due to the finely crosslinked feature. Decorated SWNTs and SLG can also form gel-derived complexes via the same process to construct support-catalyst complexes. A SWNTs-SLG film loaded with Ru nanoparticles exhibited not only catalytic effects, but also the ability to suppress the side reactions, and hence stabilized the whole Li-O-2 battery. Our research introduces a gel-derived, high-dispersed processing of carbon nanotube-graphene complexes and demonstrates their favorable applications on Li-O-2 batteries.